Thread: Article on Nokia Slowing Down
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ragnar is offline ragnar
2009-08-05 , 15:06
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Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
Hey ragnar i would be interested in knowing why nokia dropped developing touch sceen devices after 7710 saying that people were not ready for them. Did you guys at nokia really believe that touch screen phones were not the future?
Well, not believing in touch is obviously not the case. Just look at S60 touch for phones, or Maemo for tablets.

I don't have any real information on this. Personally, and in hindsight: if I would have been a strategic manager at that time, and I would have known of for instance S60 touch plans - the biggest smartphone platform in the world, after all - I would have been very eager in advancing S60 for touch and very cautious in ramping up something completely else, incompatible and competiting with S60 Touch plans, ie. S90 Touch. But that's just me.

We used the S90 devices (7700 and 7710) extensively. They were nice, certainly, but I wouldn't call them yet ready for primetime. Trying to sell them to a wide audience probably wouldn't have resulted in huge sales.